Variable

Variable symbol

Variable definitions

Donation

giving

the natural logarithm of the total amount of corporate charitable donations

Environmental performance

env

the natural logarithm of the total amount of sewage charges of enterprises

Enterprise age

age

study year minus establishment year

The scale of the enterprise

size

the natural logarithm of final asset

liabilities

debt

asset-liability ratio

Enterprise liquidity

slack

current asset-liability ratio

Performance

performance

return on total assets

Duality

dua

whether the chairman is also the CEO, yes is 1, otherwise 0

The education level of board

b_edu

The average of the total educational level of all directors on the board (1 = secondary and secondary school, 2 = college, 3 = undergraduate, 4 = graduate, 5 = doctoral)

The average age of board

b_age

The average age of all the members on the board

The shareholding ratio of the largest shareholder

first

The shareholding ratio of the largest shareholder

The ratio of independent directors

ra_inde

The ratio of independent directors

Industry

Industry

Industry dummy variable

Year

Year

Year dummy variable